Product Description

Out on a dead calm ocean, in a thick fog, a group of tourists on a pleasure craft are about to cross paths with an ancient and terrible evil. Sharing the same ocean, a sick, dying old Greek man drifts alone on a stricken yacht. The Greek (John Rhys-Davies) has been cheating death for countless years. Trading broken bodies for new ones over centuries.

With him he carries a deadly weapon that allows him to do this. This weapon, the Shifting Blade, gives its possessor an awesome power.

But now is the time of reckoning. The Ferryman, the ancient conveyor of death and the path to the afterlife is close and he wants the Greek. There is a payment to be made.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #50429 in DVD
• Brand: FIRST LOOK HOME ENTERTAINMENT
• Released on: 2007-09-25
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 100 minutes

Customer Reviews

Don't Pay... To watch this movie...
The horror , or supernatural genre has one thing I hate. Catchy ideas with crummy stories and many times even worse actors. Besides Davies the cast of this flick look like casting rejects from Reaper, which already has a cast of rejects (besides the devil of course:)

Anyhow as I stated above most movies have cool and catchy ideas and this one is that way as well. The problem is that we do not get enough of this story and then it is basically told through the ranting spirit of this dead girl that not only shows up just to seemingly have a cliched "save our heroine" role, but also gives the heroine the very thing she needs to stop the spirit. How this came about is what you will pay for if you rent this dustbin gem. As for me I hope to see this idea put together by people who actually know good story telling.

One last note. Whoever put together the soundtrack for this should be beaten until they can no longer hear. People humming opera classics would be better than the garbage on this movie.

DON'T PAY THE FERRYMAN
I'm surprised more horror movies haven't tapped into the legendary Ferryman story. This one doesn't take place on the river Styx but in the Pacific.
THE FERRYMAN is heavy on atmospheric mysticism and has a few disturbing scenes, and for a film of its genre, it's decent enough. The story focuses on some kind of spirit that has eluded the Ferryman for years by using a magic knife that allows him to jump from body to body. SLIDERS and INDIANA JONES' John Rhys Davies plays the first spirit who then manages to take over six more bodies from three couples on a cruise to Fiji. I also wish they would have used Chris DeBurgh's original DON'T PAY THE FERRYMAN instead of the horrible remake. But it's a decent horror film for fans.

Attrocious!
Really, that's the only title I could think of for this film. Cruelty to animals is not cool and this movie has one of the most sadistic scenes of animal cruelty in recent memory. The scene is implied as you don't actually see the guy breaking the dogs back but you see the aftermath and get to then listen to the poor creature whining in pain for the next 10 minutes before it's finally thrown overboard a ship. That is supposed to be entertainment? Sick is what that is.

The acting is terrible, with one particular character played by some blond chick who is quite possibly the most annoying character I have ever seen in a movie, any movie. Her incessant bitching, complaining, crying, and nagging is made all the worse by her nails on a chalkboard voice. The rest of the cast is forgettable, but to their defense they had absolutely nothing to work with. This movie probably could have made Al Pacino look bad.

Lastly, how do you go from being a main character in the Lord of The Rings Trilogy, arguably the best fantasy films ever made, to this direct to video garbage? Mr Rhys-Davies did you really need a paycheck that badly?